Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Multi-Standards : Technology and Practice

This volume provides a comprehensive and cohesive compilation of multi-standards and systems for mobile multimedia broadcasting. The material includes coverage of the basic principles, algorithms, and design trade off as well as examples of software and hardware that have been implemented at the system level. The first part of the book deals with system, implementation, compatibility and comparison of all the co-existing standards related to mobile TV and multimedia broadcasting including T-DMB, DAB, DVB-H/T, CMMB, Media-FLO, ISDB-T and WiMAX, ATSC digital TV and NTSC analog TV. The second part covers fundamental principles, algorithms, design and testing for baseband processing in mobile multimedia broadcasting. The third part consists of compression, transmission, error concealment, quality assessment and real-time implementation of video coding in broadcasting systems with emphasis on H.264 and AVS-M. The last four chapters are on the standards for audio coding, classification and surround effects. An overview of China's DRA audio coding standard and MPEG-4 AAC standard family (AAC, High Efficiency AAC and High Efficiency AAC Version 2) is given. The work also explains the general concepts behind spatial audio coding which are playing a very important role in digital audio/multimedia broadcasting systems for multi-channel contents. Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Standards: Technology and Practice is an invaluable reference for engineers, researchers, broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, content providers and others involved in the delivery of multimedia enriched contents to mobile systems. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Fundamentals of DVB-H Broadcasting Transmission and Reception....Pages 3-47 Digital Video Broadcast: Systems and Implementations....Pages 49-76 Digital Audio/Video Broadcasting and Digital Implementation of Analog TV....Pages 77-107 Video Streaming over DVB-H....Pages 109-131 Overview of Mobile TV Standards and their CMOS Tuners....Pages 133-161 Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications with WiMAX and Implementation for Its Downlink Physical Layer....Pages 163-187 MediaFLO Technology: FLO Air Interface Overview....Pages 189-220 DVB-H Link Layer....Pages 223-280 Transport and Time-Slicing Mechanisms in Multistandards for Mobile Broadcasting....Pages 281-294 Basic Modulation Schemes in Digital Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Systems....Pages 295-312 Error Control for Broadcasting and Multicasting: An Overview....Pages 313-335 Convolutional, Turbo, and Turbo-Like Codes for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting: Theory and Applications....Pages 337-390 ASIC Design for Broadcasting Baseband Processing: Practices and Architectures....Pages 391-414 Objective and Subjective Assessment Methods of Video Quality in Multimedia Broadcasting....Pages 417-434 Video Coding Using the H.264/AVC Standard....Pages 435-460 H.264/AVC Error Concealment for DVB-H Video Transmission....Pages 461-484 AVS-M: Mobile Video Standard....Pages 485-508 Design and Implementation of H.264/AVC Decoder....Pages 509-535 Audio Coding and Classification: Principles and Algorithms....Pages 539-585 DRA Audio Coding Standard: An Overview....Pages 587-606 Audio Coding Standard Overview: MPEG4-AAC, HE-AAC, and HE-AAC V2....Pages 607-627 Spatial Audio Coding and MPEG Surround....Pages 629-654 Back Matter....Pages 655-674 Mobile multimedia broadcasting compasses a broad range of topics including radio propagation, modulation and demodulation, error control, signal compression and coding, transport and time slicing, system on chip real-time implementation in ha- ware, software and system levels. The major goal of this technology is to bring multimedia enriched contents to handheld devices such as mobile phones, portable digital assistants, and media players through radio transmission or internet pro- col (IP) based broadband networks. Research and development of mobile multi- dia broadcasting technologies are now explosively growing and regarded as new killer applications. A number of mobile multimedia broadcasting standards related to transmission, compression and multiplexing now coexist and are being ext- sively further developed. The development and implementation of mobile multi- dia broadcasting systems are very challenging tasks and require the huge efforts of the related industry, research and regulatory authorities so as to bring the success. From an implementation design and engineering practice point of view, this book aims to be the?rst single volume to provide a comprehensive and highly coherent treatment for multiple standards of mobile multimedia broadcasting by covering basic principles, algorithms, design trade-off, and well-compared implementation system examples. This book is organized into 4 parts with 22 chapters.